I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.
You love who you love. I happen to just love a lot of women.
I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.
When hip-hop came along, men and women started dressing down as a form of rebellion.
All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.
I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.
I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.
For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.
I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
Like most people, I had several awakenings.
I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.
I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time.
One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.
The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for. But I also hope when I play my songs for people - adult, children, mostly children - that they feel mighty, they feel noble, they feel like warriors. And they feel like they can do anything in the world because that's how I feel.
I don't have one geographic location that I'm exclusively loyal to.
I like quality over quantity.
If one door is closed, break a window anyway.
I think a lot of people try to be someone else, and Young Thug really is who he is. I love his melodies, how he dresses, how he carries himself.
We're social beings, and I need to know and remember where I came from.
